52. Reading Skills Comprehension: FOOD

FOOD

Food can maintain or save a life. It can destroy life as well. Proper food serves the purpose of medicine. Improper food works as poison and causes diseases. We may take pride in calling ourselves civilized, but we float all the norms about the quality and quantity of food. We mostly eat processed foods. We have drifted away from Mother Nature. Thus the incidence of diabetes has increased very much. According to a survey, diabetes was rare in the natives of Canada a few years ago. With the advent of processed and junk foods, the incidence of diabetes has shot up within a very short time. By offering chocolates, cakes and ice creams too often to our children and by attending parties every other day, we, in fact, invite obesity and diabetes.

Answer the following questions briefly:

1. What can food do?

2. What is improper food?

3. What is the effect of improper food?

4. How have we changed our food habits?

5. Name the country where the incidence of diabetes has increased.

6. Find in the passage a word similar in meaning to ‘standards’.

Answers

1. It can maintain or save a life.

2.Food that harms our health.

3. It causes diseases.

4. We mostly eat processed and junk foods.

5.Canada.

6.Norms.

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